Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 on May 15th 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered [...]
Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download
May 6, 2013 By 1 Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL on May 6, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup is the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) [...]
Common MySQL traps webinar questions followup
January 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
Thanks to all attendees of the webinar yesterday! If you missed it, you can watch the video recording. Here are some questions that remained unanswered due to time constraints. Q: Are there any technical considerations or best practice tips to have a replicated slave in the cloud, for example on Amazon AWS? Hardware resources are [...]
Avoiding SST when adding new Percona XtraDB Cluster node
August 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Some people want to use a backup to prepare a new Percona XtraDB Cluster node. They want this to avoid State Snapshot Transfer that could slow down the donor (depending of the SST method you are using, the donor can be blocked. I will cover this in a future blog post). As backup are generally [...]
Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to come and say Hi! On April 25 & 26, 2012 the Open Source Data Center Conference will invite experienced administrators and architects [...]
Faster Point In Time Recovery with LVM2 Snaphots and Binary Logs
February 23, 2012 By 3 Comments
LVM snapshots is one powerful way of taking a consistent backup of your MySQL databases – but did you know that you can now restore directly from a snapshot (and binary logs for point in time recovery) in case of that ‘Oops’ moment? Let me show you quickly how. This howto assumes that you already [...]
Recovering Linux software RAID, RAID5 Array
August 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
Dealing with MySQL you might need to deal with RAID recovery every so often. Sometimes because of client lacking the proper backup or sometimes because recovering RAID might improve recovery, for example you might get point in time recovery while backup setup only takes you to the point where last binary log was backed up. [...]
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no longer think it’s a good idea to publish those blog posts [...]
Percona at WebConf Riga 2010
October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables. WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and we are very happy to be participating. In addition to Aleksandr’s [...]
Why you can’t rely on a replica for disaster recovery
July 31, 2010 By 25 Comments
A couple of weeks ago one of my colleagues and I worked on a data corruption case that reminded me that sometimes people make unsafe assumptions without knowing it. This one involved SAN snapshotting that was unsafe. In a nutshell, the client used SAN block-level replication to maintain a standby/failover MySQL system, and there was [...]
